Clothes pole and line holder



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Patented Nov; Z7, 1.883.`

PATENT OFFICE..

WILLTAM rr. MARTYN, JE., or MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

CLOTHES POLE AND LINE HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION `forming# part or Letters :Patent No.` 289,290, dated November 27, less.

Application filed August 14, 1852. (No model.)V

.To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. MARNE, Jr., of Manchester, in the county of Hil1sborough, in the State of New I-Iampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Clothes Pole and Line Holder, of which the following` is a specification.

My invention has for its object to make a device that shall serve as a post or pole for supporting one end of the line, and in addition a bird-house or other ornamental feature, also serving for ahousing or case for inclosing an apparatus for automatically drawing in the clothes-line when the same is not extended andfastened. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in` the accompanying drawings, in whichf# Figure l shows my invention partlyin` section and partly in elevation, and Fig. 2 shows the same, the plane of the view being at right angles to that of Fig. l.`

A represents the base, which may be made of wood or stone. This base A supports a hollowcolumnl3.B,`which is snrmonnted by a bird-house, C, or any otherornamental structure. lWithin the hollow column B B, at or near its top, I suspend two or more sheaves (three being shown in the drawings) up'on a cross-rod, D.

WV is a weight, also located within the columnB B, and having at its upper end a number of sheaves, to correspond with the number at the top of the column.

R R2 R3 is arope or line, fastened at one end at K, Fig. 1, and, after passing up and down, under, and over all of the sheaves E E d d di, itleaves `the interior of the column B B at the pulley Ii,`Fig. 2, as indicated by Ri, Fig. 2.

The operation of my invention is as follows: The weight W and its sheaves E E E2, in its descent from the top, will draw in the line R* R R2 It R, as shown in the drawings. When it is desirable to extend or draw out the line, the operator can, by pulling upon R2 draw it out to its limit, this action causing the weight W to ascend to the top of the column. Any desired amount of line may be used in the column, as for each sheave added at the top and bottom two lengths of line can be provided for.

It will be seen that in my device I have provided means whereby the rope is kept constantl y stretched and its parts kept separated and exposed to the air, so that there is no danger of its becoming moldy, and thereby marking the clothes. If taken in when wet, it is exposed to the action of the air, and soon dries. There are no springs to get ont of order, and the rope is drawn in automatically by the descent of the weight. i

I have shown a series of upper sheaves and a series of sheaves in the weight 5 but these are provided in order to avoid erecting a very high post. In the series of sheavesa long rope can be wound around them, and a high post thus dispensed with. This device might be liXed to the side of a house under the eaves, or under a boardor cover specially provided. Again, in'cities, where the drying of the clothing is done on the housetops, the upper sheaves can be fixed at the height at which the rope is to be stretched, and the weight permitted to fall down by the side of the house. In this last arrangement I dispense with the guidesheave L and run the rope directly off one of the upper sheaves.

I am aware that it is not new in clothes-line holders to provide means for holding the line tant; also, that weights have been used for such purpose, and that in some cases the weights have been connected to the rope by means of a pulley, and I do not broadly claim such as my invention; but

Vhat I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. In a clothes-line holder, the combination, hereinbefore set forth, of an elevated support, a stationary sheave jonrnaled upon the support, the clothes-line having one end made fast to a stationary staple or hitching device, and its other end left free and passed over and disposed i in a depending fold below the stationary sheave, and thence outward over a suitable guidepulley or bearing, and a takeup pulley placed in the depending fold of the clothes-line, and a weight supported upon the take-up pulley, all so arranged that the free end of the line may be drawn outward to any desired length and secured to a suitable fastening at a distance from the suppornt, andwhen the said end is released will be drawn into a IOO taut depending fold below the stationary sheave, substantially as described. a

2. In a clothes-line holder, substantially as described and shown, the combination. of a Verbicallydisposed casing having a line-pas sage arranged a suitable distance above the ground, theshaft D, arranged Within the upper end of the casing, a series of pulleys, d, secured on the said shaft, the Weight W, arranged and operating Within the casing, the shaft H, secured to said Weight, the series of pulleys E, arranged on said shaft and corresponding to the series of pulleys d, the guidepulley L, journaled to the casing, with its periphery close to the line-passage and the guide-pulley L, through the clothes-line passage, and thence around the pulleys d E2, in the manner shown and described, with its end made fast to the casing, all as and for the purposes set forth.

XVILLIAM H. MARTYN, JR. Vitnesses:

FRANK G. PARKER, HELEN'M. 'FEEGAN 

